Robin Clarke
@rclarke
Games producer, often found at Maraoke (@singmaraoke.bsky.social). He/him Words: I may put my frequently used hashtags here (tap and hold to filter): #NMS
In November 1984, Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius is given command of Red October, a new Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine with a "caterpillar drive", rendering it nearly undetectable to passive sonar
Until I took my helmet off near the end of the game I had completely forgotten that I had based my character's appearance on King Crimson bassist Tony Levin #LoTF
"The kids are calling it Grogu Juice. One hit can keep 'em partying for three days straight... then you start to see The Baby"
Fuck's Quest II joins the venerable list* of games/studios that immediately win me over by their thumbnail/icon/logo making me laugh out loud * Fury Fury, Mr. Crab and Badgerpunch Games
Watching a Ray Harryhausen documentary narrated by Leonard Nimoy and this bit has destroyed me
Funny how none of these dweebs who argue that gameplay is secondary to storytelling can write their way out of a wet paper bag
Lords of the Fallen environmental storytelling: you can tell important people were interred in this catacomb because they all have BAFTAs
"classic Assembly Language", "the Sega Master System home gaming console". While it's cool they're making a new SMS game I hope the last bit isn't literally true, and they haven't locked the devs in an office filled with cigarette smoke with no access to the internet and printouts for backups
This expedition seems to involve a lot of waiting around, but you can look cool while you're doing it #nms
OMFG. Finally completed #Llamatron 2112 (and got 14 levels into the second, faster?, go around)!! Final score: 1,515,544 pts. Level 114. Thanks @stinkyox.bsky.social for a fabbo game.
I mean, the bathroom ban stuff is literally the direct result of US evangelical christofascist dark money and had zero popular support even a few years ago before their corporate news media started screaming about it but, sure, okay whatever
Level 89!! #Llamatron Barring incredibly lucky warp/invincibility shenanigans I don't think I'll be b(l)eating that in a hurry.
Butchering Seal at last night's #Maraoke. Photo by @geostrauss.bsky.social
The recent Palace Software chat has reminded me of this teaser campaign they ran in the Spectrum mags for the unreleased game Super Thief in 1988. Artwork by Dan Malone.
Much like the Jesse Singal Follower Blocklist, it is impossible for this to block anything of value